SHAKE THE WORLD AND YOU?

1 June 2012

Photos by sas

Last
week a friend of mine asked me to be an ‘empower woman’ for Shake the World, what
did that mean? Shakethe World is
an organization that stand for people in Africa. They have
eightgoalslinkedto eightbracelets. The third goal is gender
equality.That stands for "power women" stand up forwomen's rights andequalitybetweenmen and women.They
want togrowawarenessfor thismillennium. They
make people awarethat there is stillmuch work tothis millenniumgoal.In many countries,even beforethe womanasinferior.

Shakethe Worldtriespeople
to be hereaware ofit.To showthat forgender equality, you can weara braceletthat stands forthis purpose.The colour ofthe braceletisorange
andcan be worn byboth men andwomen.Each of thetargets8has a
different colourbracelet.

For
€2,25 (including shipping) you can order a bracelet to
stand for these women. You convert it with a Starbucks coffee and with that
money of a coffee you can buy two bracelets! The revenues of
the bracelet are going to women in Africa to get a fair price (fair trade) for
those woman who are making these bracelets.

That is really interesting, but one thing I'm always wondering about is that there are so many organizations that help Africa, but I haven't heard that anything really changed out there. It makes me sad, that we never know where our money really goes.

I know what you mean, but there are also a lot of people in Africa. With the most organization you can see on their website what they did whit the money they raised for those people and a lot of them can go to school or have clean water:)!